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Because There's No Time Like the Present to Make Sense of Your Past
"Why did you decide to write a memoir now?"
I'm often asked. As in, "Why not wait until you're completely gray?" They're talking about my relatively young age—my memoir,
Little Failure, was published when I was 41; I always respond that 41 is actually 74 in Russian years, a joke I make while clutching my beleaguered, butter-slathered heart.
—Gary Shteyngart, author of the memoir Little Failure and three novels, most recently Super Sad True Love Story
Read the rest of Gary Shteyngart's essay on memoir writing
From the
July 2014 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
